Jon Krakauer biography

Jon Krakauer was born in April 12, 1954. He grew up in Brooklyn, Massachusetts but later moved to Corvallis, Oregon. As the third child of five, he was only two when his whole family moved to Corvallis. at the age of eight, his father introduced him to mountaineering. He later went to college at Hampshire College in Massachusetts with a degree in Environmental Studies. he later got married in 1980 to Linda Mariam Moore who was also a mountaineer. Krakauer was a mountaineer, meaning he knew how to climb mountain safely and sufficiently. He, like Chris McCandless, both spent some time living off of the land in Alaska. Some of the differences were between the two was that they spent a different amount o time in different pats of the mountain ranges, and of course Krakauer made it out alive. Besides Into the Wild, Krakauer wrote 5 other non-fiction books called Into Thin Air, Eiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains, Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith, Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman, and Three Cups of Deceit.